German with Film Studies with a year abroad

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

Students should take the core modules outlined plus two or three options in German (depending whether you are a non-native or native German speaker). Those studying beginners' German (ab initio) take a different, specially-designed core language module.

In your first year you will take 90 credits in German and 30 credits in Film Studies.

German

Ab initio pathway

If you are an ab initio student in your first year you are required to take the following modules:

• Introductory German (30 credits)
• Texts and Contexts for ab initio (30 credits)
• One Hundred and Twenty Years of German Cinema (15 credits)

Non-native German pathway

If you are a non-native german speaker, in your first year you are required to take in your first year you are required to take the following modules:

• German Core Language I (30 credits)
• Texts and Contexts (30 credits)
• One Hundred and Twenty Years of German Cinema (15 credits)

Native German pathway

If you are a native German student, in your first year you are required to take the following modules:

• Texts and Contexts (30 credits)
• Translation from and into German I (15 credits)
• One Hundred and Twenty Years of German Cinema (15 credits)

Film Studies

In your first year, you are required to take:

• Introduction to Film Studies: Forms (15 credits)
• Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts (15 credits)

German

Ab initio pathway

In additon you are rquired to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Milestones of German History (15 credits)
• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

Non-native German pathway

In additon you are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Milestones of German History (15 credits)
• Medieval Germany: Language, Literature and Society (15 credits)
• An Introduction to German Politics (15 credits)

Native German pathway

In addition you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules which may typicaly include:

• Texts and Contexts (30 credits)
• Translation from and into German I (15 credits)
• One hundred and twenty years of German cinema (15 credits)

Film Studies

There are no optional modules for your first year.

Year 2

In your second year you will take 90 credits in German and 30 credits in Film Studies.

German

If you are an ab initio student, you are required to take:

• Intermediate German (30 credits)

If you are a non-native German speaker, in your second year you are required to take:

• German Core Language II (30 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, in your second year you are required to take:

• Translation from and into German II (15 credits)

Film Studies

In your second year there are no required modules.

German

If you are an ab initio student, you must take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may include:

• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (15 credits)
• Gender and Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

You will take a further 45 credits chosen from optional modules which may include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
• Society and Popular Culture in Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• A Year in the Life of German-language Film (15 credits)
• History into Literature (15 credits)

If you are a non-native German speaker, you will take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may include:

• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (15 credits)
• Gender and Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

You will take a further 45 credits chosen from optional modules which may include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• German in London. The City in Literature and Film (15 credits)
• Society and Popular Culture in Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• A Year in the Life of German-language Film (15 credits)
• Hitler’s Victim? Modern Austrian Literature & Film (15 credits)
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
• History into Literature (15 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, you will take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may include:

• The German Reformation (15 credits)
• 18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (15 credits)
• Gender and Identity in Arthurian Romance (15 credits)

You will take a further 60 credits chosen from optional modules which may include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• German in London. The City in Literature and Film (15 credits)
• Society and Popular Culture in Germany since 1870 (15 credits)
• A Year in the Life of German-language Film (15 credits)
• Hitler’s Victim? Modern Austrian Literature & Film (15 credits)
• Berlin Past and Present: The Reconstruction of a Capital City (15 credits)
• History into Literature (15 credits)

Film Studies

In your second year, you will take 30 credits from a range of optional modules, which may include:

• Asian Popular Cinemas (15 credits)
• Cinema & Spectatorship (15 credits)
• Chinese Cinemas (15 credits)
• Authorship and Creativity in the Cinema (15 credits)
• Film Forms (eg: Documentary Film, Avant-garde Cinema) (15 credits)
• The French New Wave (15 credits)
• Italian Neo-Realism (15 credits)
• Contemporary European Cinema (15 credits)
• Topics in World Cinema (15 credits)
• Contemporary Spanish Cinema (15 credits)

Year 3

This is normally spent in Germany, Austria or German-speaking Switzerland, either as a student at one of our Erasmus partner institutions, as a language teaching assistant, or on an approved work placement. We have links with universities in Munich, Frankfurt (Main), Berlin, Heidelberg, Mannheim and Vienna under the European Erasmus-Socrates scheme.

You will spend your third year abroad at one of our partner institutions, which currently include:

• Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Universität Wien
• Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Universität Mannheim

You will also have the opportunity to apply for the English Language Assistantship Programme or to undertake an internship or work placement in a German-speaking environment, which you will normally be expected to organise independently, allowing you to explore career prospects and personal interests.

Year 4 In your fourth year you will take 90 credits in German and 30 credits in Film Studies. Required Modules

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native speaking student, you are required to take:

• German Core Language III (30 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, in your fourth year, you are required to take:

• Translation from and into German III (15 credits)

Film Studies

In your fourth year, there are no required modules.

German

If you are an ab initio or non-native speaking student, you will take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may include:

• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• Death and the Afterlife in Medieval and Modern German Literature (15 credits)
• Women’s Writing: Then and Now (15 credits)

Additionally, you will also take 45 credits from a range of optional German modules, which may include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Aspects of Post-1945 German Culture (15 credits)
• German in the World: Afro-German Moving Images (15 credits)
• Contemporary German Politics [European & International Studies] (15 credits)
• New German Cinema in East and West (15 credits)
• Writing in Tongues: Literature & Migration in the Modern German Context (15 credits)

If you are a native German speaker, you will take at least 15 credits from modules that contain some pre-modern content, chosen from a range that may include:

• Goethe: From Sturm und Drang to Classicism (15 credits)
• Religion, Sex, Politics: German Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries (15 credits)
• Death and the Afterlife in Medieval and Modern German Literature (15 credits)
• Women’s Writing: Then and Now (15 credits)

Additionally, you will also take 60 credits from a range of optional German modules, which may include:

• The pre-modern modules listed above
• Dissertation (15 credits)
• Aspects of Post-1945 German Culture (15 credits)
• German in the World: Afro-German Moving Images (15 credits)
• Contemporary German Politics [European & International Studies] (15 credits)
• New German Cinema in East and West (15 credits)
• Writing in Tongues: Literature & Migration in the Modern German Context (15 credits)

Film Studies

You will take 30 credits from a wide variety of optional modules, which may typically include:

• American Underground Cinema (15 credits)
• Cinema and Social Formations (15 credits)
• Fathers in Film (15 credits)
• Film and Architecture (15 credits)
• Film and Religion (15 credits)
• Film and Transnationalism (East Asian Focus) (15 credits)
• Film Genre: Hollywood Musical (15 credits)
• Film Noir (15 credits)
• Stardom and Performance (15 credits)
• The Biopic: Historical Lives and Biographical Screen Practices (15 credits)
• Third Cinema & Beyond (15 credits)